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March 2006
Issue No. 279   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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LETTERS

John Charalambous, John Hay, Ian Scutt, Graeme Wilson, Nicholas Jose, Beverley Kingston, Jacki Weaver, Simon Nasht

 
DIARY Angus Trumble
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY Australian Art Criticism and Its Discontents Luke Morgan
   
ART Marquard Smith (ed.): Stelarc Zara Stanhope
Johanna Fahey: David Noonan
Alexie Glass: Lisa Roet  
Justin Paton: Ricky Swallow  
Ingrid Periz: Adam Cullen Anthony Gardner
Julie Ewington: Fiona Hall Jason Smith
Patricia Tryon Macdonald: Exiles and Emigrants Daniel Thomas
Deborah Edwards (with Rose Peel et al.): Margaret Preston
Roger Butler: The Prints of Margaret Preston Damian Smith
Barry Humphries, Andrew Sayers and Sarah Engledow: The World of Thea Proctor Caroline Jordan
  Michael Dunn: Nerli Julie Roberts
  Barry Pearce: Jeffrey Smart Sarah Russell Scott
Margaret M. Manion: The Felton Illuminated Manuscripts Joan Barclay-Lloyd
Nikolaus Pevsner: Pioneers of Modern Design Christopher Menz
Patricia Anderson: Art + Australia Prue Gibson
   
ART IN BRIEF Plastered
  Inside Australia; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art; Great Music Makers
 
POEM Barry Hill  
   
COMMENTARY Art Museums in an Age of Bread and Circuses Christopher R. Marshall
   
FILM Barbara Creed: Phallic Panic Rose Lucas
     
SOCIETY Judith Raphael Buckrich et al.: Collins: The Story of Australia's Premier Street
  Seamus O'Hanlon and Tanja Luckins (eds): Go! Melbourne Neil Clerehan
   
REFERENCE Max Prisk, Tony Stephens and Michael Bowers (eds): The Big Picture John Thompson
   
 
HISTORY Suzanne D. Rutland: The Jews in Australia Colin Golvan
Cassandra Pybus: Epic Journeys of Freedom Donna Merwick
 
JOURNALS Delys Bird and Dennis Haskell (eds): Westerley Vol. 50  
Anne Pender and Leigh Dale (eds): Australian Literary Studies Vol. 22, No. 2 Maria Takolander
   
 
2006 ABR Lisa Gorton  
POETRY PRIZE J.S. Harry  
SHORT-LIST Alex Skovron  
 
  Judith Bishop
Brendan Ryan  
 
  Keith Harrison  
 
ANTHOLOGY

Les Murray (ed.): The Best Australian Poems 2005

Jennifer Strauss
 
POETRY

Philip Salom: The Well Mouth

Jeri Kroll
 
FICTION James Bradley: The Resurrectionist Robert Phiddian
Arabella Edge: The God of Spring Melinda Harvey
 
Marion Halligan: The Apricot Colonel Denise O'Dea
M.J. Hyland: Carry Me Down Michelle Griffin
Paddy O'Reilly: The Factory
Josephine Wilson: Cusp Danielle Wood
   
 
PACIFIC STUDIES Donald Denoon: A Trial Separation Allen Patience
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